I liked the "facts" site, but it's a bit too attention starved fanboy for my taste.

It does occur to me that these "facts" are more than a little too geeky to explain to my wife if I want to avoid extended celibacy.

A couple of comments on the facts I saw in TFA:
"Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it".
-Isn't this what Eskimos did when carving scrimshaw, carving away the excess to find what animal was inside the material, until they had the completed figurine? I suppose it could be done by calculating a one-time-pad against the random text to generate the article, but we all know how much he hates Crypto using one-time-pads, he might then have to put himself into his own doghouse.

Also; "Most people use passwords. Some people use pass-phrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes."
-I doubt this, I mean how many epic poems about seven Norse heroes are there? 3-4 maybe? probably not even 10? Even with variations for typesetting, the key-space is just way too limited and the likelihood of a typo in a pass-phrase that long is too high.

I doubt that Bruce cares enough about his data security to implement a "strong" authentication solution. I would think he would implement a "reasonable, plus a bit more" solution. He would be the first to point out that having a uber secure, personally held cryptographic key signing token that's unlocked by a pass-number and biometric authentication is pretty pointless on a Windows Laptop connected to the Internet with a software firewall. Since there are so many easier ways to attack it than reversing the crypto its inefficient to increase the one thing that probably strong, better to try and secure it across the board.

Such a token solution would just be security theatre and if we're doing theatre darn it, we should have music and dancing girls.

Holy cow, every web search ad I see for fact is now pitching books and products by Bruce. There's no end to it. It is marketing genius. I think it's a Google bomb or something even bigger. The Bruce Fact Engine could replace all the other Web 1.0 style search engines soon.

I liked the "facts" site, but it's a bit too attention starved fanboy for my taste.

It does occur to me that these "facts" are more than a little too geeky to explain to my wife if I want to avoid extended celibacy.

A couple of comments on the facts I saw in TFA:
"Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it".
-Isn't this what Eskimos did when carving scrimshaw, carving away the excess to find what animal was inside the material, until they had the completed figurine? I suppose it could be done by calculating a one-time-pad against the random text to generate the article, but we all know how much he hates Crypto using one-time-pads, he might then have to put himself into his own doghouse.

Also; "Most people use passwords. Some people use pass-phrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes."
-I doubt this, I mean how many epic poems about seven Norse heroes are there? 3-4 maybe? probably not even 10? Even with variations for typesetting, the key-space is just way too limited and the likelihood of a typo in a pass-phrase that long is too high.

I doubt that Bruce cares enough about his data security to implement a "strong" authentication solution. I would think he would implement a "reasonable, plus a bit more" solution. He would be the first to point out that having a uber secure, personally held cryptographic key signing token that's unlocked by a pass-number and biometric authentication is pretty pointless on a Windows Laptop connected to the Internet with a software firewall. Since there are so many easier ways to attack it than reversing the crypto its inefficient to increase the one thing that probably strong, better to try and secure it across the board.

Such a token solution would just be security theatre and if we're doing theatre darn it, we should have music and dancing girls.

Holy cow, every web search ad I see for fact is now pitching books and products by Bruce. There's no end to it. It is marketing genius. I think it's a Google bomb or something even bigger. The Bruce Fact Engine could replace all the other Web 1.0 style search engines soon.